Piers Morgan is a professional provocateur. While skewering the great and good, the brash TV host treads the fine line between strident opinion and offensiveness. But it is vital we defend free speech – the bedrock of civilised society. One academic was even barred from giving a university talk on free speech. If free speech, encompassing the right to offend, isn’t defended fiercely we risk an unwitting slide into tyranny.

Source: Daily Mail March 11, 2021 00:33 UTC